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International Politics

Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues

Textbook

International Politics

Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues

Textbook

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International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues has been helping students understand the dynamics of international relations for fifty years. Readings by leading scholars on essential topics illustrate fundamental debates and differing points of view for a comprehensive and engaging overview of the discipline, while introducing readers to the major forces shaping the world today. The fourteenth edition continues the book’s cornerstone approach of combining foundational theoretical works with recent perspectives on current problems, including a wealth of new material spread across each of the book’s four parts. The foundational material is organized to highlight the concept of anarchy in international relations and how matters of security, power, military force, international political economy, and strategic interactions influence patterns of cooperation and conflict. In additional to a focus on basic security and strategic problems, the politics of international commerce, and challenges facing the global economy, this edition also covers critical contemporary issues, including human rights, civil wars, intervention and peacekeeping, migration, cyber conflict, great power competition, climate change, energy transition, nuclear weapons, pandemic diplomacy, and changes in the political shape of the system writ large.
Features:
60 expertly edited readings from scholarly sources, with 30 new to this editionA four-part organization to cover anarchy, the use of force, international political economy, and contemporary issues, with an in-depth editor introduction to each PartAn entirely new chapter on the return of great power politics -- ever-more important after Russia's invasion of UkraineLearning objectives and discussion questions to focus student learning

Preface
PART I. ANARCHY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 1. Power and International Politics
1.1 What is Power in Global Affairs? (Joseph S. Nye, Jr.)
1.2 The Melian Dialogue (Thucydides)
1.3 Six Principles of Political Realism (Hans J. Morgenthau)
1.4 A Critique of Morgenthau’s Principles of Political Realism (J. Ann Tickner)
1.5 The Device of Race in International Politics (Ralph J. Bunche)
1.6 Legitimacy in International Politics (Ian Hurd)
1.7 Morality and International Politics (E. H. Carr)
Chapter 2. Anarchy and Strategic Interaction
2.1 The Anarchic Structure of World Politics (Kenneth N. Waltz)
2.2 Anarchy and the Struggle for Power (John J. Mearsheimer)
2.3 Anarchy Is What States Make of It (Alexander Wendt)
2.4 Rationalist Explanations for War (James D. Fearon)
2.5 Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma (Robert Jervis)
Chapter 3. The Mitigation of Anarchy
3.1 Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma (Robert Jervis)
3.2 Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs (Michael W. Doyle)
3.3 Alliances: Balancing and Bandwagoning (Stephen M. Walt)
3.4 The Future of Diplomacy (Hans J. Morgenthau)
3.5 Competing Perspectives on International Law and Politics (Leslie Johns)
3.6 International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work? (Robert O. Keohane)
3.7 The U.N. Security Council (Adam Roberts and Dominik Zaum)
PART II. USES OF FORCE
Chapter 4. The Political Uses of Force
4.1 The Fungibility of Force (Robert J. Art)
4.2 The Diplomacy of Violence (Thomas C. Schelling)
4.3 The Four Functions of Force (Robert J. Art)
4.4 What is Terrorism? (Bruce Hoffman)
Chapter 5. The Utility of Force Today
5.1 The Power and Limits of Compellence (Robert J. Art and Kelly M. Greenhill)
5.2 Nuclear Coercion Myths (Todd S. Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann)
5.3 When Migrants Become Weapons (Kelly M. Greenhill)
5.4 The Record of Nonviolent Resistance (Erica Chenoweth)
5.5 The Cybersecurity Dilemma (Ben Buchanan)
Chapter 6. Nuclear Futures
6.1 Deterrence in the Emerging Nuclear Era (Caitlin Talmadge)
6.2 Losing Control in Crises (Robert Jervis)
6.3 A World Without Nuclear Weapons? (Thomas C. Schelling)
PART III. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBALIZATION
Chapter 7. Foundational Perspectives on Political Economy
7.1 The Nature and Study of International Political Economy (Robert Gilpin)
7.2 Economic Interdependence and War (Dale C. Copeland)
7.3 Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Case for Free Trade? (Dani Rodrik)
Chapter 8. Perspectives on the Global Political Economy Today
8.1 Globalization of the Economy (Jeffrey Frankel)
8.2 The International Consequences of Financial Fragility (Jonathan Kirshner)
8.3 Understanding the Crisis at the WTO (Aseema Sinha)
8.4 America’s Self-Defeating Retreat (Adam S. Posen)
8.5 New Rules for the Global Economy (Dani Rodrik)
8.6 Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan)
PART IV. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN WORLD POLITICS
Chapter 9. The Return of Great Power Politics
9.1 Emerging Multipolarity: Why Should We Care? (Barry R. Posen)
9.2 Balancing Soft and Hard Power: China, Russia, and the United States (John M. Owen)
9.3 Wedge Strategies: Can China Divide India and the United States? (Timothy W. Crawford)
9.4 The New Cold War: America, China, and the Echoes of History (Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis)
9.5 The False Promise of Russian Balancing against China (Robert S. Ross)
9.6 How the International System Can Still Check China and Russia (Stacie Goddard)
Chapter 10. Human Rights, Civil Wars, and Interventions
10.1 Global Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century (Emilie M. Hafner-Burton)
10.2 Transnational Activist Networks (Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink)
10.3 The “New” New Civil Wars (Barbara F. Walter)
10.4 To the Shores of Tripoli? Regime Change and Its Consequences (Alexander B. Downes)
10.5 The Astonishing Success of Peacekeeping (Barbara F. Walter, Lise Morjé Howard, and V. Page Fortna)
10.6 Crafting Peace through Power Sharing (Caroline A. Hartzell and Matthew Hoddie)
Chapter 11. Managing the Global Commons
11.1 Why Climate Change Matters More Than Anything Else (Joshua Busby)
11.2 The Realist Guide to Solving Climate Change (Stephen M. Walt)
11.3 The Future of the Global Nuclear Order (Jeffrey W. Knopf)
11.4 Health Diplomacy in Pandemical Times (Tanisha M. Fazal)
Chapter 12. The Political Shape of the Future
12.1 Why China Won’t Overtake the United States (Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth)
12.2 How Fear of China is Forging a New World Order (Michael Beckley)
12.3 The Next Liberal Order (G. John Ikenberry)
12.4 How US Hegemony Ends: The Unraveling of American Power(Alexander Cooley and Daniel H. Nexon)

Product details

Published	Feb 01 2023
Format	Paperback
Edition	14th
Extent	632
ISBN	9781538169551
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	11 b/w illustrations; 8 tables
Dimensions	10 x 7 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Thanks to the editors’ brilliant updates, International Politics remains the peerless compilation of canonical and cutting-edge texts for classroom use—welcome news for a new generation of international relations students.

William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College
There is nothing more essential in today’s shifting geopolitical climate than educating the next generation of scholars and practitioners. In this volume, the authors distill the field into the most crucial readings and contextualize them for international relations students. As such, this is the single most valuable international relations reader available today.

Keren Yarhi-Milo, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, and Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
This is a wonderful update to the canonical IR textbook. The editors have kept the crucial foundational texts, supplemented with a diverse selection of analyses on provocative contemporary issues, including climate change, migration, global health, and transnational activism. It represents the state of the art on IR theory and will captivate a new generation of students.

Ron E. Hassner, University of California, Berkeley
Like its predecessors, the 14th edition of International Politics is an extraordinary classroom resource. This unique volume combines classic international relations texts with timely policy relevant research and permits instructors to offer their students the theoretical rigor and cutting-edge research one finds in top-notch journals and periodicals, but delivered in a single package of carefully curated, highly accessible and easily digestible excerpts. It's a terrific reader.

Kelly M. Greenhill, Tufts University and MIT
This has long been my go-to reader for introductory courses in international relations. It includes many of the great classic and contemporary essays in the field and organizes them according to key theoretical issues. It is the perfect guide for students who want to explore the original writings and see how international relations scholars argue and make sense of the world.

Ryan D. Griffiths, Syracuse University
This is the most well-organized and comprehensive text, bringing together the leading voices on international relations to engage with fundamental debates, provide insights, and encourage critical analysis of the issues that shape our world.

Jennifer L. De Maio, California State University, Northridge